-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hayim Shaul schrieb: > > Is it a hardware problem? looks like (see below) > But if I need to replace anything, then what do I need to replace? > Is it the controller that once in a while decides a disk to be not present? dunno, depends on the error messages. > > Obviously, HP support are not more useful than looking at a green LED > and telling me their machine is superb. ouch :( > Trouble is I have none. > Nothing appears in /var/log/messages. Probably because the FS went RO. > And once the system enters this state I can't login to it so I don't > have any more information available. well, can you reproduce the error and log to somewhere else? maybe even remote? > Probably I am not aware of all the ways to retrieve information from > such stuck systems. I'd appreciate help in this. "dmesg" should print out error messages, even if /var/log is ro. > For e.g., how can I redirect syslog to print to another partition? > (hoping that partition to stay RW)? just tell syslog where to log: /etc/syslog or /etc/syslog-ng should help here (man syslogd) - -- BOFH excuse #429: Temporal anomaly -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDqB9XC/PVm5+NVoYRA9MsAKC1o6LQBtt/QCGkFFaEEKjhn3PCVQCfV1f/ YUAaUD88E6StKRKY2GCi3Fk= =iOZp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
